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Part I · Chapter 4The Truth at Dover
Summary
Jarvis Lorry arrives at Dover’s Royal George Hotel, cleans up after the journey, and waits for Miss Manette. When the seventeen-year-old arrives, he recognizes her resemblance to the child he carried from France to England years earlier. Calling himself an unemotional man of business, he gradually tells what she has never known: her father, Doctor Manette of Beauvais, did not die before her childhood but disappeared into a French prison.
Miss Manette’s mother concealed this truth to spare her daughter years of uncertainty. Doctor Manette has now been found alive after a long confinement, gravely changed and living with an old servant in Paris. Lorry and Miss Manette must go there secretly to identify him and remove him from France. Overwhelmed, she faints. Her strong, red-haired attendant brusquely drives back Lorry and the servants, then tends the young woman with tenderness and skill.
Who’s who
- Jarvis Lorry — A sixty-year-old Tellson’s banker who once carried Miss Manette to England.
- Miss Manette — A seventeen-year-old ward of Tellson’s who believed her father dead.
- Doctor Manette — Miss Manette’s French father, found alive after years of imprisonment.
- Miss Manette’s attendant — A protective, red-haired woman who cares for her after she faints.